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G. E. ORUTOHPIELD.

RUNNING GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

No. 392,786. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.

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RUNNING GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

No. 892,786. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.

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View of the said holster.

GEORGE E. GRUTOI-IFIELD,

OF ENGLISH, ARKANSAS.

RUNNING GEAR FCR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,786, dated November 13., 1888.

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[To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Cnurcn- FIELD, of English, in the county of Arkansas and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Running-Gear for Vehicles, of which the following is a'full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in running-gear for vehicles, and has for its object to construct the same of metal, mainly tubing, and provide a durable, simple, and economical construction which will be perfect in its operation.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a plan view of the complete running-gear. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the rear bolster with axle attached. Fig. 3 is a plan Fig. rtis a front elevation of the rocking or front bolster with the axle in section; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of said bolster. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line 6 6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a transverse section on line 7 7 of Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the connecting-block uniting the forward hounds and the coupling-pole or reach; and Fig. J is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 1.0 is a transverse section on line 10 10 of Fig. 4. i

In carrying out the invention, the front and rear axles, 11 and l2,are constructed of tubular iron, having their ends made tapering to form the spindles 13, which spindles are threaded to receive the usual nut and provided with a collar, 14, shrunk or otherwise produced thereon. Near the end of the said axles and at their center a hollow malleable-iron block, 15, is secured, adapted to extend vertically from the upper face of the axle. The said blocks upon their under faces are conformed to the contour of the axle and provided with a. reduced rectangular upper extremity, 1G, and a horizontal portion, 17, in said reduced por- The connection between the blocks and axles is effected by two or more, preferably two, essentially U'shaped clamping-bolts, 18, which bolts, engaging the under side of the axle, are passed upward around the same through the portion 17, and secured by suitable nuts, as best shown in Fig. 6.

The front and rear sand-bolsters, 19 and 20, consist of suitable bar-iron bent to shape, having their ends welded or otherwise secured, the inner faces of which bolsters engage the flat outer surfaces of the several hollow blocks 15, being secured thereto by transverse bolts 21, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 7'. In each end of the rear sand-bolster a perpendicular standard, 22, is secured, consisting of a piece of bar metal bent to an essentially U shape and sprung in the bolster, as illustrated in Fig. 10.

The reach or coupling-pole 28 is made of one piece of wrought-iron pipe, upon'which is held to slide afittiug, 24., having rearwardly extending arms 25, one at each side, as best shown in Fig. 1. The rear end of the reach is provided with a series of apertures and passes through an apertured sleeve, 25*,shrunk or otherwise secured in the center block, 15, of the rear sand-bolster. A bolt is usually passed through the aperture of the sleeve and a registering-aperture in the reach, whereby the latter is rendered adjustable. The forward end of the reach is pivoted to the center of the forward sand-bolster or to the central block thereon.

The rear hounds, 26, are threaded at their forward ends and screwed into the respective arms 25 of the fitting 24. The rear ends of the hounds 26 are carried outward in opposite directions to an engagement with the end blocks of the sand-bolster 19 and provided with an attached short section of pipe, 27, threaded at each end,which section 27 is passed through the said end blocks and held in rigid position by nuts 28, one screwed upon each end to an engagement with the bolster. The short section 27 is secured to the hounds by being shrunk thereon, riveted thereto, or in any other approved manner, extending rearward at an angle to the said hounds, as best shown in Fig. 1.

The rocking bolster 29 is constructed of bariron bent to shape, as shown in Figs. etand 5,

having its ends secured by welding or otherwise, braced by a series of transverse spacingblocks, 30, and bolts passing through the said blocks and bolster. The rocking bolster is provided with end standards, 22, secured in similar manner to the standards upon the rear sand-bolster,and a central transverse plate,31. The kingpin 32 is passed through the said plate into the central block of the forward axle, as best shown in Fig. 4.

The forward hounds, 33, consist of a wroughtiron tube bent to circular shape and held to slide beneath the reach through the medium of aguide-block, 34. The guide-block 34-, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, is provided with an upper and lower aperture, respectively, nu n1- bered 35 and 36, one aperture being at right angles to the other, the reach passing through the upper aperture and the hounds thiOllgh the lower one.

Thcend blocks of the forward axle have a walled transverse opening formed in the center to receive a short tube, 37, the projecting ends of which are threaded and provided with a loelenut, 38, as best shown in Fig. 6. The forward hounds pass through the said tubes 37, thelatter being semicircular, and are guided thereby. The front hounds also pass through an eye, 89, formed upon the under side of a tongue, 40, which tongue is pivoted v to the forward sand-bolster or central block of the same opposite the pivotal point of the reach,

The abutting ends of the front hounds are preferably secured by a short threaded section of pipeyll, shrunk or otherwise -secured thereto, upon which nuts 12 are secured adapted to clamp the tongue.

The nuts 42 of the pipe-section 1-1, and likewise the forward nuts of the section 38, are provided with sockets l-3,in which bracerods 44 are seen red.

It will be observed that a running gear constructed as above described will be not only durable, but also economical and simple, and that the forward hounds,turning with the pole or tongue, act as a fifth-wheel.

Ill'aving thus described my invcntiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by l'letters Patent, is

1. In a running-geanthc combination, with tubular axles, metal blocks secured upon the same, and sand-bolsters secured upon said blocks consisting of a metal bar bent to shape,

5 of a tubular reach and tubular forward and rear hounds, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a running-gear, the combinatiomwith tubular axles, metal blocks secured upon the same, and sand-bolsters secured to said blocks consisting of a metal bar bent to shape, of a tubular metal reaeh,tubular metal rear hounds attached to the reach and to the end blocks of the rear axle, and revoluble circular and tubular forward hounds, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a running-gear, the combination, with tubular axles, metal blocks secured upon the same, sand-bolsters secured to said blocks consisting of a metal bar bent to shape, and a tubular metal reach secured in the center block of the rear axle and hinged to the equivalent block of the front axle, of rear tubular metal hounds secured to the reach and to the end blocks of the rear axle, circular and tubular metal forward hounds passing through and revolving in the end blocks of the forward axle,and a metal rocking bolster pivoted upon the forward sandbolster, substantially as shown and described.

4. Ina running-gear,the combination, with tubular axles, metal blocks secured upon the same,sand-bolsters secured to said blocks eon sisti n g of a metal bar bent to shape,and standards attached to said bar,a tubular metal reach sliding in thecenter block of the rear axle and hinged to the equivalent block of the front axle, of rear tubular metal hounds secured to the reach and to the end blocks of the rear axle, circular and tubular metal forward hounds passing through and revolving in the end blocks of the forward axle, a metal rocking bolster pivoted upon the forward sandbolster, and a hinged tongue clamped to the forward hounds, substantially as shown and described.

. 5. The combination, in a wagon runninggear,with the front and rear axles, of a reach pivotally connected at its front end to the front axle and connected at its opposite end to the rear axle, of a circular hound secured to the front axle and having a sliding connection, 34-, with the said-reach in rear of its pivotal point, and a tongue connected to the front axle and secured in front of the axle to the.

forward half of said hound, substantially as set forth.

(3. lhe combination, with the rear axle and a reach longitudinally adj ustablc in connection therewith, of a tubular sleeve, 24, through which the reach passes, having opposite rearwardly and outwardly inclined branches or sockets, 25,and hounds 26,extending from said branches orsoekets and rigidly connected with the rear axle at opposite sides of its center, substantially as set forth.

7. In a wagon, the bolster comprising an eb- IOC IIC)

long open frame formed of a bar of flat metal placed. edgewise and having spacing-pieces within it and transverse bolts passing through the frame and blocks, substantially as set forth.

8. In a wagon, the open bolster 29, having spacing-blocks 30 bolted within it, and standards formed of n shape bars bolted at their lower ends within said bolster, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination ,with the axlc,of ablock, 15, having a rounding axle-receiving recess in its lower face, vertically-extending bolt-apertures and U shape bolts passing up therethrough, and the open bolster formed of fiat metal embracing the flat front and rear faces of the upper end of said block and bolted thereto, substantially as set forth.

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10. The combination, with the axle and the circular hound 33, of the blocks 15, having axle-receiving recesses in their lower ends and oppositely-extending apertures above said ends,through which the circular hound passes,

and the open bolster receiving the upper ends of said blocks, substantially as set forth.

11. The combination, with the front axle having blocks 15, secured to its ends and having sleeves or tubes 37, passing through them and provided with opposite nuts, 38, clamping the blocks between then1,the forward nuts having sockets 48, of the circular hound 38, passing through the sleeves or tubes 37 and connected at its ends by a short tubular section having nuts 41, provided with sockets 43,

GEORGE E. GRUTCHFIELD.

"Witnesses:

.Tnssn L. Haznnwoon, LEE QUATTLEBAN. 

